Monster at the Gate
See it now before its too late
Please, please, please Before we all get ate
This is a special report from Garbanzo Productions. It concerns Nuevo Progreso, The Rio Grande Valley, The border states, all of Mexico and Latin America, the United States, yea all of the world. The situation to the south of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas is grim, very grim. It was one thing to have failed states in Columbia and Bolivia and Somalia and Afghanistan. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk…Why are they so barbaric? Why can’t they be more like us? Then we forget and go on about our day. When the failed state is just a few miles away across the river, and the people that are running the chaos (yes, I meant to say that. At times only an oxymoron will really describe a situation) then suddenly what was just a mythical beast from far away becomes very real….A monster at the gate that will consume all attention, and, if you are careless and unaware, will consume you as well.
Mexico has always been more or less in a state of organized chaos. The structures of law and regulation have been stretched past the limits by peddlers of influence and special interests, bribery and corruption, xenophobia, Napoleonic legal systems, and a judiciary and executive system always up for sale to the highest bidder, A monolithic political and religious structure, and of course, the two polarities of fascism and socialism. Crony Capitalism and various monopolies of the elite round out the picture, however it is drawn up at any one particular time…Amazingly it has worked somewhat to a degree. But it became untenable in the new technological and information age. Without change Mexico was sinking further and further down it’ hole of tradition. Things had to change….
Well, not really for the better. In exchange for Mexico opening to the American and Canadian Markets, it of course did receiver many low paying jobs, outsourced to keep wage rates low for the globalist corporations..
And to lower the economic level of their more prosperous neighbors to the north. Now Mexico was going to step into the future and be lifted out of it’s third world status. Some reforms were instituted, the Aduana (the Mexican Customs) for a while could no longer take bribes, in fact they were prohibited from handling any money whatsoever. All payments and fees were handled by the bank across the street. Those guys looked so miserable. The Vicente Fox administration was drug testing them, watching them, transferring them to the Guatemalan Border every few months. They couldn’t rob the “Paisano’s or Mexican citizens living in the U.S. that came back to their homeland during the holidays. Times were tough for Mexican Officialdom. I recall several times up to 75 per cent of the Reynosa Police force would be fired for failing the drug test. One time after a change in the mayoral administration in Reynosa, the police department had only three cars running in a town of about half a million. But things are back to normal. It’s party time again!
A Viejo (Old Man) of 75 or so with a bad knee on a poor road….and now: Pow! Imagine a 350 pound sack dumped on his back. Almost three times his own weight…Here is the analogy of what happened to the Mexican security and legal system when the full weight of the American caused drug war came crashing down on the Viejo. He’s face down in the dirt and he hasn’t got up yet. The Mexican drug syndicates had in the past only been in charge of transporting the cocaine from South America into the United States. With the collapse of the major cartels in South America the Mexicans were no longer just mules. Now they buy at the source and sell direct to distributors in the U.S. Before there was an understanding involving government, cartels and locals. There is a famous saying in Mexico. Quiere Plata o Plomo? Do you want silver or lead? Most everybody took the silver. Now with what some have estimated product introduced into the United States at half a trillion dollars, the game has changed.
Some say 80 percent of all illegal drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico. No way to be exact on this. The old system has broken down, too much money. The Cartels are fighting each other. Most of the security forces are allied with one or the other of the players. Local police either work for the drug gangs or are actually physically eliminated; that is killed. The old saying: Plata o Plomo no longer applies. The Police work for the cartels and consider themselves lucky to be alive. In a narco-civil war of this level, if you don’t take sides then you are suspected by all sides to be on the enemy side. The old man is on his last gasp, and soon the dirt of the narco road will swallow all trace of him.
The army is everywhere, blundering about, blasting away, lying and obfuscating information like they were Bush or Obama Administration Spokesmen.
The Mexican People have no great love or trust in their government.
Without the people it’s damned hard to win a guerilla war. The people are getting more support from the cartels than the government. The current American Administration has made it clear they are willing to fight the cartels down to the last breath of the last Mexican. How caring….I’m sure they feel the same about us on the north side of the Rio Bravo…Such compassion…
So the monster is at the gate…or should I say El Cucuey is at the fence? I hear him knocking…Every week indictments come down on this side of local government and police officials on corruption and bribery charges. You never hear of the Feds, the DEA, the FBI, Homeland Security and all their underlings receiving their indictments. I’m not re-assured. Who is there to arrest the people at the top? No one. Is the untouchable, incorruptible Fed a reality or just another children’s tale for the child public? What does reason tell you?
How many un-winnable wars do we need? How many can we afford?
It’s past the time to talk falsely, for the monster is at the gate. El Cucuey scares more than children now.
Do you hear knocking?
